Show it IT YOUR TOWN ITS YOU it if you want to live in the kind of a town like the kind of a town you like you slip your clothes in a grip and start on oil a long long hike only find what you left behind for theres nothing really now I 1 its a knock at yourself when you knock your town it the town its you real towns are not made by men afraid lest somebody else gets ahead when every body works and nobody shirks you can raise a towi from rom the di biad ad and if while you make your jour personal stake atako your neighbors neighbor rs can make one too your town will be what you want ant to see bel it II the town its you fou in n looking over an old pt program the other day we cine came across the above verses and almost instantly it occurred to us ua that those were applicable to almost any town in this country more especially do they apply to our town since it it is a common thing to hear a certain class claps of people railing at its disadvantages and of how much better conditions are in some other town far away it is really up to t you alio io read these lines just juat what this town is going to amount to for after all it is not the town itself that lias has anything to do with the matter but the people who live in the town the town itself is att an inanimate object without the get getup up and got get spirit on tile the part of the people who live here bere it cannot amount to any thing more than it is at present the verses speak truly when they say its a knock at yourself when you knock your town i when tho average person hears you say disparaging things about your town lie immediately classes you in ill tile category of that class that lifts has nothing better to do than to sit around and knock instead of getting busy with tile the things that ought to be done to help your town get ahead we have bave no room for knock knockers pra what we is people with a lively sense of their duty towards the town where they live and if they the knockers to leave us its and go on that long IL kg g like so much the alie better for those alio have lave made up their minds to live in our town and to help it grow and achieve those successes which have bave come to other towns if that class is given to knocking would only turn their attention to doing pilings that would help our town grow the same saine spirit in which they seek to disparage the efforts of elioso who are trying to build it up it would not be long before wo we would have one of the liveliest liv livI liest iest towns in tada western country LETS BURRY THE HAMMER FOREVER |